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A Penny for your thoughts charity campaign
Barwhiz is donating ten cents for every venue submitted and every review written about a bar, club or pub.
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Only 8% From Pink NFL Merchandise Sales Goes To Breast Cancer Research
It is breast cancer awareness month and the NFL is once again covered in pink. Unfortunately, very little money is going towards cancer research.
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How Can I Contribute to Charities Without Donating Money?
Giving is a good notion, regardless of what your income level is. Studies have shown that spending money on others can have a better effect on our personal happiness than spending it on ourselves. Of course, if you don't have much, it can feel a little crummy. However, there are plenty of ways to contribute without going into debt.
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Bill Gates says putting worldwide internet access before malaria research is 'a joke'
Bill Gates is once again speaking out against the internet-first approach many tech leaders have taken to philanthropy. "As a priority? It’s a joke," Gates tells the Financial Times, when asked.
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The flip side to Bill Gates' charity billions
Microsoft’s former CEO has made massive donations to global health programmes through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, but with some unpleasant side-effects.
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Who’s Giving to the Philippines—and Who Isn’t
Since Haiyan hit the Philippines, more than $150 million has poured into the island nation. The U.S., as usual, is near the top of the donor list. But where's China?
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Amazon’s Smile Program Encourages Philanthropy at Christmas
You might not expect the e-tailing behemoth to inspire the rest of us to give a little extra at Christmas, but the Smile program could change the contours of seasonal charity.
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Australian Couple Covers House in 500,000 Christmas Lights for Charity & World Record
David and Janean Richards, a couple living in Canberra, Australia, have decked their house in an astonishing 502,165 lights to raise money for charity and capture the world record for the most lights on a residential property. The display includes 164,000 feet of lights that are synchronized to music by 520 Light-O-Rama channels. The display will be on view through December 26,Throughout the event, the Richards will be raising money for the children’s charity Sids and Kids.
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Kim Kardashian Keeps 90 Percent Of Proceeds From Philippines Charity Auction
Kim Kardashian, the centre of all evil in the universe, has managed to annoy even her most ardent followers with a new money and fame generation scheme in which she uses a charitable cause to help bulk up her pre-tax profits. Not just any charity either, but one for survivors of a tsunami.
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No laughing matter: UK Comedy telethon for charity invested in tobacco, alcohol and arms firms
Comic Relief has been forced to defend its investment policy after it emerged that millions of pounds donated to the charity went towards buying shares in tobacco, alcohol and arms firms.
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Calgary man says he’ll donate entire $40M lottery win to charity
A Calgary man who won a $40-million lottery jackpot says he will donate every cent to charity. Tom Crist found out that he’d won the Lotto Max jackpot in May, but did not claim it until Monday. For months, he didn’t tell anyone about his big win – not even his kids.
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Layaway Santa Picks Up Tab Again
The spirit of giving is in full swing this season as the act of paying off layaway plans for strangers has gone from novelty to trend. The most recent display of generosity was in the Dallas suburb of Granbury, Texas, when a secret Santa walked into the local Walmart and paid off the store’s entire list of layaway accounts.
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The Gates Foundation's Hypocritical Investments
With an endowment larger than all but four of the world’s largest hedge funds, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is easily one of the most powerful charities in the world. According to its website, the organization “works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives.” So how do the investments of the foundation’s $36 billion investing arm, the Gates Foundation Trust, match up to its mission? We dug into the group’s recently released 2012 tax returns to find out.
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Tycoon Robert Wilson gives away $800 million fortune before jumping to death
A renowned Wall Street tycoon gave away his entire $800 million fortune before falling to his death in a suicide jump this week. Hedge fund multi-millionaire Robert W. Wilson, 87, leapt from the 16th floor of his luxury San Remo apartment building, a prestigious address in New York’s Upper West Side which has been the residence of Steven Spielberg, Demi Moore, Glenn Close, Dustin Hoffman, Bono, Steve Martin, Bruce Willis and Steve Jobs in the past.
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Zuckerberg tops list of US philanthropists
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg topped the list of US philanthropists who opened their cheque books to make big donations in 2013, with his gift of almost $1 billion to a Silicon Valley charity.
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Bill Gates told that his charity pledge is ‘worthless’
Bill Gates is the richest person in the world — but one retired New York hedge-fund mogul thought the software pioneer’s Giving Pledge was “practically worthless.” Robert W. Wilson, a well-known philanthropist who had given away $600 million of his fortune as of 2013, abruptly turned aside Gate’s 2010 request that he sign the Giving Pledge.
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Bill Gates preaches the aid gospel, but is he just a hypocrite?
The world's richest man is seen as a secular saint. But he should question the example that Microsoft is setting by avoiding tax
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Boss selling restaurant to save employee with brain tumor
Along Highway 105 in Montgomery, you'll find the Kaiserhof Restaurant and Wunderbar. You'll also find a waitress extraordinaire named Brittany Mathis. "I have my good days and my bad," said Mathis. The 19-year-old employee doesn't look or sound sick, but she is - and everyone at the authentic German restaurant knows it.
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Pope Francis lambasts the rich and reminds the world of what matters most
The applause of the pilgrims he can take for granted. But when Pope Francis receives veiled threats from the Calabrian Mafia and American billionaire investors such as Kenneth Langone, he can be pretty sure he is making an impact.
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Newtown School Shooting Charity Is Missing $70,000
A co-founder of a Tennessee-based charity to support the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting told the Associated Press that she cannot account for more than $70,000. Ryan Graney, who created the 26.4.26 Foundation along with Robbie Bruce, said the group collected $103,000 but only distributed $30,000, to a non-profit youth sports center in the city of Newtown, Conn. where the shooting happened in Dec. 2012.
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